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What is it about Mozart?
Tom Service asks, 'What is it about Mozart?' Rethink music with The Listening Service.
Repetition
Tom Service and Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explore why repetition is essential in music.
Beginnings
Tom Service explores how to get a piece of music off to a good start.
The Listening Service Extra 12 of 12 - Schoenberg’s Compositional Vision
Tom explores how Schoenberg hears the music that he is going to write.
The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception
We hear Schoenberg on the reception of his music in America, Europe.
The Listening Service Extra 10 of 12 - Do the correct notes matter?
Tom looks at Schoenberg’s plea to musicians to play the correct notes in his String Trio.
The Listening Service Extra 9 of 12 - Tennis Partners
Tom looks at Schoenberg’s love of Gershwin, who was also his tennis partner in Hollywood.
The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg
We listen to Schoenberg’s praise of his pupil, Alban Berg...
The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies
Tom looks at Schoenberg’s demonstration of how to harmonize a melody to maximum effect...
The Listening Service Extra 6 of 12 - Twelve Tones
Schoenberg’s distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones...